Yet another health study is being proposed by the state to evaluate the effects of oil and gas drilling. Hopefully the needs and objectives for this study will be well thought-out. However, it would appear that this topic has already been extensively studied by many entities, including the Environmental Protection Agency, a number of states, and different counties.

Why are we still looking for harmful effects after 100 years of drilling in Colorado when any significant effects should be grossly evident from such an extensive experience base?

Hopefully any new study doesn’t become another witch hunt with special interests concerned with only one conclusion (to find any reason to kill a vital industry).

Bill Turner, Aurora

This letter was published in the March 27 edition.

This study is a reasonable and needed expenditure of state tax money. As fracking continues to expand in many parts of Colorado, the public needs to know what, if any, impacts exist. No one knows for sure what the air, ground and water impacts, both short-term and long-term, could be. Let’s have an accredited third-party firm conduct the study.

Let’s get the facts instead of relying on self-interest advertisements on radio and TV.

Bill Christopher, Westminster

This letter was published in the March 27 edition.

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